After attacking the van Gogh portray, Simply Cease Oil local weather activists Anna Holland, 20, and Phoebe Plummer, 21, each pleaded not responsible within the London courtroom to prison injury.
The portray itself was protected by a display however injury was triggered to the body, in line with the gallery in Trafalgar Sq..
District choose Tan Irkam launched the 2 girls on bail, pending a trial on December 13 in London.
Holland and Plummer additionally glued themselves to the gallery wall throughout their protest.
The most recent stunt concentrating on artistic endeavors got here after Residence Secretary Suella Braverman threatened a police clampdown towards “direct-action” protests, together with by the group Simply Cease Oil.
On Saturday, almost 30 demonstrators from the group glued themselves to the tarmac as they blocked a serious street in east London, triggering indignant exchanges with motorists.
One other Simply Cease Oil protest on Friday focused the New Scotland Yard headquarters of London’s Metropolitan Police, which arrested 28 demonstrators.
In the identical London courtroom Saturday, Lora Johnson, 38, pleaded not responsible to prison injury after allegedly spraying orange paint on the New Scotland Yard signal, as others blocked the street exterior.
On the Conservatives’ annual convention this month, Braverman vowed to go after “protesters who use guerrilla techniques and produce chaos and distress to the law-abiding majority”.
Nevertheless, Simply Cease Oil argues that local weather adjustments poses an existential disaster for humanity and that its direct techniques are justified.
“What’s price extra — artwork or life,” Plummer shouted on the Nationwide Gallery on Friday.